When the glass was originally announced last summer, Corning expected to see products leveraging the technology sometime in 2013. But companies have yet to come up with products that take advantage of the glass:

“People are not accustomed to glass you roll up,” Clappin said after an event marking the opening an $800 million factory for liquid-crystal-display glass. “The ability of people to take it and use it to make a product is limited.”

The Corning, New York-based company is producing the glass and making “a lot of effort” to teach “very big name” customers how to handle the spools, Clappin said, declining to elaborate.

The New York Times said specifically, in a story published earlier in the month, that the iWatch would “stand apart from competitors based on the company’s understanding of how such glass can curve around the human body.”

A recent Apple patent application uncovered last week also added fuel to the bendable display speculation. The application details a watch-like device made of a single piece of material that wraps around a user’s wrist.

Are you disappointed that the iWatch, if it really does hit the market this year, probably won’t look like the pictured curved glass concept?